[cas_announce] New Mars Rover Lands Monday Morning: Watch it at the Cincinnati Observatory
- From: Craig Niemi <craig_niemi@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Announce CAS_ <cas_announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 07:37:34 -0700 (PDT)
August 6,
Midnight-2AM
NASA’s Mars Science
Laboratory (MSL), carrying the Curiosity Rover will land early Monday morning
on the Red Planet. An elaborate landing mechanism will hopefully bring
the car-size rover safely to the Martian soil at 1:31am EDT. After an
eight-month journey, the landing will come down to “Seven Minutes of Terror”
when an automated system of parachutes and retro-rockets will slow the
spacecraft down from Mach 27 to zero in seven minutes.
Will the rover land
safely? If so, what will it discover?
Tune in to: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ to watch
it live.
Or even better,
attend a Mars party at the Observatory. We will stream the webcast from
midnight
(Sunday night) to 2am (Monday morning) and have viewing of the late night sky
through the 1845 telescope (weather permitting). No reservations required
- $5/person suggested donation.
Cincinnati Observatory Center
3489 Observatory Place
Cincinnati, OH 45208
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